As the year concludes, the YouNDigital project – Youth, News, and Digital Citizenship – shares its latest developments, advancing critical engagement with news, promoting digital citizenship, and fostering global discussions on diversity.
Key Reports Published
- Training (Milestone 4): Highlights YouNDigital’s training sessions aimed at transferring knowledge and promoting critical media literacy, addressing topics like information credibility, Artificial Intelligence, and algorithms. Training targeted journalists, policymakers, and young audiences, with partnerships in Portugal and Brazil.
- Project Outcomes (Milestone 5): Summarizes findings such as young people's preference for personally relevant news, the lack of schools as spaces for media literacy, the dominance of social media for information, and the association of news and politics with negative emotions.
Webinar with Ranjana Das
Dr. Ranjana Das from the University of Surrey delivered a webinar on the intersection of local news use and parenting. This session, now available online, explores youth audiences, technology, and digital citizenship.
Diversity Toolkit
The Participatory Research with Young People – Echoes of Diversity Toolkit addresses diversity and participatory methodologies. It features reflections on ethics, academic activism, and youth empowerment, with contributions from researchers across Lusophone cultures.
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